On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:<br>
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While I agree with this in general, sometimes I wish that there were fewer ... because then we'd have much greater opportunity for collaboration and code reuse.<br>
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Maybe this can be helped a bit if there is a way of many of those language developer to agree on 1 common intermediate code to compile to.<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>Obviously, I must mention -- <a href="http://parrot.org/">http://parrot.org/</a><br>
<br>From their web site:<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute
bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of
language implementations in various stages of completion, including
Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a
.NET bytecode translator. Parrot is not about <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=parrots">parrots</a>, though we are rather fond of them for obvious reasons.<br></blockquote><br>Cheers,<br> - Richard<br></div></div>